Bottom's Up 2009

This is my own version of the annual "year end report". It's my first time to do a recap of my year in all its highs and lows. I just want to put up some trends in my blog starting this new year. =) And so, Bottom's Up is first. It will be a rundown of the happenings that made or broke my year starting with the things that made me go rock bottom to the things which places me up there in the stairway of whatchamacallit.

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So here goes..Bottom's up!

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• 15. PEOPLE ALWAYS LEAVE MOMENTS - This is the year where separate lives are born and friendships are tested to its core. Some of my friends already label it the PAL symdrome because of its over usage! haha! It's lonely to be alone, nevertheless, missing people can make the coming back worthwhile. Just make sure to come back, you nitwits!
• 14. BUMNESS - I am understimulated this year. As I was saying, I've reached a plateau where anything seems silent and flat amidst the buzz outside of my circle. I have not exercised my license yet. I haven't put it to risk. What a bummer!
• 13. GLOBAL WARMING - This year was a cacophony of Mother Earth's impending wrath. Typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng affected more lives than we can ever imagine. News about endangered sea creatures drifting to the shoreline were also increasing. This just means their habitat is not safe anymore that's why they are escaping. Plus, the scorching heat of everyday is just unbearable! Do we really need to hear this monstrosity before we listen to nature?!
• 12. DEATHS - Celebrity deaths from Francis Magalona to Michael Jackson and Cory Aquino. Not to mention a couple of family acquaintances. This year is just plain morbid.
• 11. NO LEYTON - Lucas and Peyton, my favorite One Tree Hill characters were cut from the show's seventh season. Staying true to the OTH flag, I still watch the show and the story is getting better as the season goes, but I still miss the two.
• 10. ONLINE SHOPPING - From books to wardrobe, online shopping at Multiply.com is fun! I bought a lot of books online this year..Plus those that were given as gifts! Now I have lots to catch up on!
• 9. EFREN AND MANNY - Efren Penaflorida and Manny Pacquiao are two of the Philippine's pride! It was my first time to see a Pacquiao match live this year. I never thought I would enjoy it with all its testosterone might, but I actually did! The Pacquiao-Cotto match was a hit! As with Efren Penaflorida, his being really inspires me. His acceptance speech at the CNN Hero of the Year always makes me teary eyed, whether seeing, hearing or reading it. He is a man worth emulating. And of course, there is Arnel Pineda and Charice. Oh well.
• 8. LIFE - They say if something's gone, something will have to replace. This year, two of my cousins gave birth. Cousin Vic Vic to a chubby Miakka and Cousin Angging to twin boys. We are very excited to have the first twins in the family! I am Miakka's Ninang as well as Dennison's, the twin's older brother. Babies are adorable!
• 7. THE CEBU-BOHOL TRIP - This was the most fun family vacation to date! We went on a trip to both cities via land. If only the van walls could talk! haha!
• 6. RIGHT TO SUFFRAGE - Yes, I am finally a registered voter and it will be my first time to vote in the May 2010 elections. I am currently raising awareness on who to vote. (etchos!)
• 5. DRIVING LESSONS - I was not able to make an entry about my driving lessons last time. I took one a couple of months ago and thanks to my kick-ass married-twice mother of an instructor, I am already driving on the road! Not alone yet though.. I still have to convert my student's permit to a license.
• 4. GRADUATE SCHOOL - After 1 year, I am currently on my last 6 academic units. Comprehensive exams and a thesis to go then I'm done!
• 3. PLURK AND TWITTER - If you can't plurk it, tweet it! haha! Plurk, Twitter and Facebook are my ways to stay updated with peeps as well as expressing my everyday quips. If not for them, I'll live in solitary mood all year long! Plus, celebrity replies in Twitter make my day!
• 2. GLEE - My favorite new season show!! Underdogs + musical = Hazel's love!!! My heart goes out to them! It's my midweek stress buster and it never fails to make me smile every time they belt out a song! I get teary eyed with their heartfelt songs! I also play their songs at You Tube repeatedly if I'm really digging it! I am a certified Gleek!!!
• 1. THE RED, YELLOW AND ROUND - This DH thingy is weird and is driving me bananas but sometimes, if not most of the time, it is the only one I've got to escape boredom and depression (especially during those idle internet times) and I found my newest best friend because of it. There are 6 billion people in the world, but sometimes, all you need is one...- one hell of a person, or a non-person for that matter! hahaha! Happy Friday on New Year's!

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There you go! My 2009. Nothing really interesting there. Just bumness in between. Nevertheless, affirming the positives is food for the soul.

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2010 is something waiting to unfold. Anxiety is written all over it in my calendar but I'm definitely looking forward to brave the coming storm and enjoy the sunny side up of it!

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Wishing you all good tidings and smiles! Happy New Year!

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Love and Bliss!! Mwah!

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Listening To: Coffee and Cigarettes by Michelle Featherstone

talking pinocchios

yellow frecklesnoots!

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Well, you might have heard of the whole DH shebang by now. And as expected, you are not buying it. Well, denial sucks. hehehe! You might wonder why we did this is the first place. What would we get?! The answer, laughter! And as my brother said, "Laughter, Don...is not a waste of time!" (hahaha!). We didn't plot the whole thing from start to finish. Heck! I did not even know it started! I was just caught off guard when Chessa interrogated me and told me that that critter of a Don said something! And I thought he slept...Little did I know, he started the story already...And we did not expect it will 'roll' a long way...It was supposed to be until December only..Let's just say, we can't help it! hahaha!

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As he said, everything is true except that there was no December 6, therefore, no relationship, just pure etchos! haha! To be honest, it was really really fun going on endless dramas on YM and copy-pasting sympathetic responses on each other's windows! I know it is unfair but you can't resist laughing when someone says : "Ahhh! I just wanna zoom to her place now and see her!" and one responded: "No..Don't do that..It's bad to wake her parents up at 1 in the morning.." hahaha!(ouch! our livers!)

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But etchos aside, we found a friend above all this. All those YM chats are not totally for pranks, you know..(Shh! anay mga malisyosa..hehe!) It's really good to have a friend whom you have lots in common with that you don't even have to explain "why" if a problem strikes...Mainly because he will just say "I really don't know!" aside from reading my mind...hahaha! Now, that's where the DH part comes in! Problems aren't problems anymore if we talk! haha! From being alone to getting impatient, we would just turn them into DH then, voila! depression gone! haha..see what a good friend can do! haha!

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People might not get it why we did it. Similarly, we can't get it why people can't get it that it's just a prank! haha! Wala lang... Just in dire need of evil company! haha! Nong Don is just one of the craziest persons I know! haha! It's just keeps on rollin'! C'mon ladies! Get him while he's still, RED, hot and single! hahahaha! (advertisement na ni mo! ambot na lang kun mapalpak ka pa sa girlet! hahahaha!) Have pity on the lonely ones (including me)....hehehe!

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Well, I also learned and discovered a lot on this prank. I discovered that people can't resist juicy gossip! It will spread before batting an eyelash! But when the time comes that they will have to spread the "truth", everyone zips it. (Well, maybe because they don't believe it! haha!). Another thing is, friends really support you no matter what. The downside? They don't interrogate you much that is why they havn't found loopholes that will make them doubt if it's true or just another prank! hehe.. But they really do support and respect your decisions. On the other hand, some people have side comments which are not on the feel-good side but who cares?! There are more fans than there are foes! haha! We just laughed it off! Also, another nice thing about this is we got to test how well our friends know us by asking them in our "getting to know each other" DH style! haha! Clap your hands friends! Indeed you know us! Yippee!

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See..I told you this isn't all prank and evilness..hehe! But we still are sorry...I am..really...After all, we are all just a bunch of talking pinocchios, right?! Everybody lies and plays pranks...What's the difference between the two anyway?! hehe! But for the record, my nose is still the same..hehe! How about you, Your Evilness, Mr. Garcia?! hahaha! What do you have to say?! (And don't go 'konek' and 'magic word'...you are also a culprit...hehe!)

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Love and Bliss!

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Listening To: If I Never Knew You by John Secada

DH Etchos Principles of Life

by Don..(evil!)

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• Smile! life is short

• Being small is better, the world tends to be more bigger for you

• Fear not, that you cannot do something…Fear what you can do and not be able to control it

• Why talk, if you can laugh

• Truth hurts, live in fantasy

• Read minds (Cullenize), it’s fun!

• New stuffs compete, Oldies/Classics are legends

• RED is the color for insanity

• YELLOW is the color for happiness

• RED+YELLOW = insanely happy

• There is no such thing as ‘weird’; it’s just a matter of getting used to it

• Get ‘konek’ted

• Don’t lie, learn to be a ‘prank’ person

• Mind your manners! Don’t eat chocolate cake with your hands. Use chopsticks.

• Drink RED tea

• Give an honest answer: “I really don’t know”

• Give a good advice: “Wateva makes you happy”

• Hold your liver when you laugh

• Be therapeutic: Laugh before starting a conversation

• Chat, laugh, fall over, and roll

• Keep on smiling

• Start a joke that will make the world cry

• Extend contracts

• Plan ahead, plan good, and… just keep on planning

• Smile when you sleep

• Avoid depression, it’s the root of all evil laughs

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Love and Bliss!

DH signs

You know you’re a DH fan if….

You know who’s DH

You know they have a kid

You know what’s the name of the kid

You know the kid’s not really a living thing

You know they don’t really appreciate and love the kid genuinely

You know they “konek”

You regard them as a couple even if they are not, they haven’t been, they are, they aren’t anymore or they won’t be

You would tell them “basi mag tuod” or “tuoda nyo na lng bla”

Seeing them sitting side by side is sweet

Everything about them is sweet even if it isn’t

You know what happened on December 6, 2008 and/or January 6, 2009

You wrote a comment on the DH chronicles

You love the DH chronicles even if you haven’t placed a comment

You know the DH chronicles is a trilogy

You are looking forward to the third

You know they are fixated with the colors red and yellow

You know there are certain numbers which they regard as DH numbers

You know they love the oldies

You know how they have helped the November takers for the boards

You absolutely know they are good pranksters

You may have gotten pranked by them, once or twice or who knows?

You know they’re good friends

You even said once or twice.. ”nami kamo bunggoon!”

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You know you’re DH if…

You regard ‘1’ as Rambo, ‘2’ is a team and ‘3’ as a family

You have typed “hahaha” more than any other word

You have used the Dhanzel smiley more than the hahaha’s

The Dhanzel smiley is your favorite

You call all smileys Dhanzel

You have coined a lot of meaning for DH but…

You know only ‘1’ is the real meaning

You acknowledge a kid but…

You know very well that the kid doesn’t know you’re the parents so…

You start back lashing the kid everytime!

Until now, you haven’t decided on the kid’s gender

You don’t even know if the kid has one! Haha!

You are fixated with the colors red and yellow and

You know why

You are obsessed with equating everything to 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8

You know the individual meaning of those DH numbers

You never fail to smile when you see a DH color or DH number, whenever, wherever

You star in the DH chronicles

You are proud you are in it and it has gone a long, long way

You totally understand why resting, err, settling down is a disadvantage

You Edward Cullenize each other

You are surprised at every ‘konek’-tion you make

You are able to convert any serious problem to DH mode

Until now, you haven’t figured out what went wrong with the 72 bottles for 99 stomachs for 2 days

You are fascinated with anything related to liver, eyes and glutathione

Your favorite and most used phrase might be “I really don’t know”

You have converted that phrase to “magic word”

You do “whatever makes them happy.”

You regard yourselves as Team Betamax

You listen to old songs and watch old movies and cartoons

You can’t hide laughter when you talk to each other

You have tried to hide that laughter but it did not work

You know that hidden laughter generates more hidden smiles

You may have fallen from a bed due to excessive laughter

You have been to all stages of smiles…hidden smiles…random smiles…intriguing smiles…evil smiles…smiles with bulging eyes…

You have had nightmares of bulging eyes and smiley smiles, several times

You know that the hardest and most manifested of them all is the random smiles

You are having random smiles everyday

One of you may just be too slow or too fast

If you feel lazy, you are actually Ga-Te namad

You always feel the abovementioned

You regard Beautiful Girl by Jose Mari Chan as your lullabye and Please Be Careful with my heart as a theme song

Everlasting Love by The Company makes you smile

The movie, While You Were Sleeping reminds you of all things DH

You gave each other DH “gefts” last Christmas

You may have wished that Santa is blind last Christmas so that he won’t see what you’ve been doing

You don’t know what a coaster is at first

You have been fascinated with the coaster ever since

You had so much fun last January 6

You have played several pranks and the victims fell for it every time!

You laugh first before saying hello whenever you see each other

Not saying hello to each other in malls is better than saying hello and having random smiles thereafter while walking by yourself

You have talked the DH lingo to ordinary peeps and they “really don’t know” what you’re talking about

You just then gave them the classic “smile and wave”

It’s either etchos or etchos aside, if it’s in between, you Edward Cullenize each other

You think the DH chronicles generated many fans

You know ‘1’ person who never fails to tease and even went his way to send an email reminding you of his baseball bat to be used to beat you up “kun indi kamo magdayunay”

You have 1 ultimate secret

Your contracts are extending as always

That secret cannot be revealed soon since the contract extended

You know what a tally board is and who’s in it

You make fun of each other

You favorite time of the day is 1:38 or maybe 3:18 or…whatever! As long as it involves the DH numbers, you’re fine with it!

Most people are just better late comers than you do

As of February 6, you haven’t failed to talk DH every single day to each other

You notice something with the date 2-06

You can’t stop smiling right now

You can’t believe you’re smiling on a thing which makes no sense to others

These things totally makes sense to you

You consider you minds as sleeping monsters

You are far too ambitious thinking that you can author a book, teach, go to school and be a darn parent of an imaginary kid all at the same time.

You have written etchos poems

You support each other’s blogs

You call each other darling or baby kalbo or baby sunglass, whichever is appropriate

You are a hopeless, and I mean HOPELESS romantic

You prefer yellow M&M’s over other colors and use the red one as lipstick or face paint

You have eaten a chocolate cake using chopsticks which are meant to be the slicer

You know what day of the week is considered DH day

You are hunted by DH things almost everyday

You know what’s the DH curse and the ‘1’ letter that accompanies it

You know its DH karma if something bad happens

You are surprised to have same DH karma almost always

You have never laughed this frequent before DH came along

You have never been this “tingaling ding dong” before DH came along

You theorize that this will not end since we don’t have the “scissors” to cut it

You know why you don’t have the scissors

You live by the line “Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan it.”

You consider depression as a drive to make your imaginations and fantasies come into reality.

You believe that living ‘etchosly’ makes you so happy.

You keep on telling other people “You have no idea how it is to be alone.”

You are ‘techy’ and ‘alone.’

You believe a day would never be complete without DH stuffs.

You believe in the saying, “early bird catches the benta” but ...

You know as well that the late bird saves the best for last

You regard this as very memorable, you might as well make this a book

You know if someone DH tells you, etchos aside, it’s etchos aside, no questions asked

You know if someone DH is having a problem

You know if someone DH needs to talk

Etchos aside, you talk even if it takes hurrying up since someone DH is waiting in YM

In the middle of the serious talk, you still manage to inject DH things which will somehow ease the problem and will eventually ease the problem

You help each other and do each other favors, etchos aside

You can always say without hesitation, “Only a friend like you can put up with a friend like me.”

You are true friends at the end of the day, etchos aside.

And…you keep on reading all of these over and over again!

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Love and Bliss!